NFS Mounts

[Dan Weisenstein]

Fritz Whittington wrote:

> On or about 2004-04-23 14:39, Chris Garringer whipped out a trusty #2 
> pencil and scribbled:
>
>> The server should have the client in /etc/hosts.
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>>>>> sysadmin at fleetone.com 04/23/04 02:34PM >>>
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>>  ----- Original Message -----  From: Dan Weisenstein  To: Rob Freeman 
>>  Cc: For users of Fedora Core releases  Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 
>> 2:32 PM
>>  Subject: Re: NFS Mounts
>>
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>>  Rob Freeman wrote: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan 
>> Weisenstein" <dan at tesoro.com>
>> To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 2:00 PM
>> Subject: NFS Mounts
>>
>>
>>  I have two Linux systems - one Fedora and one SuSE. I'm attempting to
>> mount a file system from one on the other (either way).
>>
>> I've placed the file system in /etc/exports and done an exportfs -a to
>> populate xtab. nfsd and rpc.mountd are running. I've put ALL:ALL in
>> /etc/hosts.allow. The host names are in each others hosts files.
>>
>> mount hostname:/home/shared /mnt/hostname
>>
>> always returns a permission denied. What am I missing?
>>
>> Thanks- Dan
>>  
>>
> <snip>
> Having followed this so far, I can't help but comment that the 
> original problem was not so much to run NFS, but to move some files.  
> If it's a one-shot thing and not too much stuff, a 256 MB USB Key or 
> similar might be viable.  If Dan really needs true file-sharing, I 
> submit that Samba is a lot easier to get working than all the 
> discussion I've seen to get NFS working.  Unless there's some obvious 
> aw-sxxt like SuSE doesn't support Samba.
>
/etc/hosts.[allow,deny] are empty. SuSE supports Samba quite well. 
Haven't played with it too much in Fedora, yet.

I seems to me that using Samba to provide mounts between 2 *nix systems 
is adding a layer of unecessary complexity. NFS has been around for 
decades and should be one of the most stable things about *nix. I've 
been using Unix since 1985 and I can't remember having a problem like 
this. Now, I haven't used any *nix for a few years, and just got back 
into it via Linux a year ago. But I still remember most of the 'old' stuff.

Trying to mount a Fedora filesystem to the SuSE system results in 
permission denied. Trying to mount a SuSE filesystem on Fedora results 
in connection refused. Ugh...

Dan